On this day: January 19

January 19: Theophany (Julian calendar)

John Wilkes

• 649 – War against the Western Turks: The forces of Kucha surrendered after a siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang.
• 1764 – English radical and politician John Wilkes (pictured) was expelled from the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel.
• 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was first performed at the Teatro Apollo in Rome.
• 1996 – A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, US, spilling an estimated 828,000 US gallons (3,130,000 l) of home heating oil.
• 2006 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.

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